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Vocal Works
2013

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Side 1

1
Les Illuminations, op. 18: Fanfare
2:05
2
Les Illuminations, op. 18: Villes
2:30
3
Les Illuminations, op. 18: Phrase
1:07
4
Les Illuminations, op. 18: Antique
2:04
5
Les Illuminations, op. 18: Royauté
1:40
6
Les Illuminations, op. 18: Marine
0:59
7
Les Illuminations, op. 18: Interlude
2:14
8
Les Illuminations, op. 18: Being Beauteous
3:56
9
Les Illuminations, op. 18: Parade
2:39
10
Les Illuminations, op. 18: Départ
2:37
11
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Prologue
1:20
12
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Pastoral (Cotton)
3:26
13
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Nocturne (Tennyson)
3:29
14
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Elegy (Blake)
4:10
15
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Dirge (Anon)
3:37
16
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Hymn (Jonson)
2:03
17
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Sonnet (Keats)
3:43
18
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Epilogue
1:30
19
Now sleeps the crimson petal
3:04
20
Nocturne, op. 60: On a poet's lips I slept
3:30
21
Nocturne, op. 60: Below the thunders of the upper deep
3:29
22
Nocturne, op. 60: Encinctured with a twine of leaves
2:13
23
Nocturne, op. 60: Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting
2:24
24
Nocturne, op. 60: But that night when on my bed I lay
3:03
25
Nocturne, op. 60: She sleeps on soft, last breaths
4:38
26
Nocturne, op. 60: What is more gentle than a wind in summer
3:01
27
Nocturne, op. 60: When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
5:08

Side 2

1
Quatre Chansons françaises : 1. Les Nuits de juin (Victor Hugo)
2:50
2
Quatre Chansons françaises : 2. Sagesse (Paul Verlaine)
2:49
3
Quatre Chansons françaises : 3. L'Enfance (Victor Hugo)
4:30
4
Quatre Chansons françaises : 4. Chansons d'automne (Paul Verlaine)
2:33
5
Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : Prologue
2:00
6
Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : A. Rats Away! (Anon)
4:40
7
Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : B. Messalina (Anon)
6:55
8
Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : C. Dance of Death (T. Ravenscroft)
6:29
9
Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : Epilogue and Funeral March
6:18
10
Folksong arrangements : Little Sir William
2:32
11
Folksong arrangements : Come ye not from Newcastle?
1:25
12
Folksong arrangements : Bonny Earl Moray
2:37
13
Folksong arrangements : Oliver Cromwell
0:48
14
Phaedra Op.93 : In May, in brilliant Athens
6:32
15
Phaedra Op.93 : O Gods of wrath
3:14
16
Phaedra Op.93 : My time's too short, your highness
6:18
17
Five French folksong arrangements : La belle est au jardin d'amour
2:52
18
Five French folksong arrangements : Eho! Eho!
2:00
19
Five French folksong arrangements : Fileuse
1:56
20
Five French folksong arrangements : Quand j'etais chez mon père
2:00
21
Five French folksong arrangements : Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse
2:51

Side 3

1
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 1. Sì come nella penna (XVI)
2:03
2
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 2. A che più debb'io mai (XXXI)
1:20
3
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 3. Veggio co' bei vostri occhi (XXX)
3:10
4
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 4. Tu sa' ch'io so (LV)
1:46
5
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 5. Rendete a gli occhi miei (XXXVIII)
1:50
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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 6. S'un casto amor (XXXII)
1:15
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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 7. Spirito ben nato (XXIV)
4:51
8
Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 1. Oh my blacke soule
3:19
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Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 2. Batter my heart
1:13
10
Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 3. O might those sighes and teares
3:04
11
Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 4. Oh, to vex me
1:04
12
Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 5. What if this present
2:57
13
Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 6. Since she whom I loved
3:48
14
Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 7. At the round earth's imagined corners
2:47
15
Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 8. Thou hast made me
1:24
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Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 9. Death, be not proud
4:15
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On This Island Op.11 : 1. Let the florid music praise!
3:08
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On This Island Op.11 : 2. Now the leaves are falling fast
1:58
19
On This Island Op.11 : 3. Seascape
1:58
20
On This Island Op.11 : 4. Nocturne
3:59
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On This Island Op.11 : 5. As it is; plenty
1:29
22
Winter Words Op.52 : 1. At day-close in November
1:34
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Winter Words Op.52 : 2. Midnight on the Great Western
4:45
24
Winter Words Op.52 : 3. Wagtail and Baby
1:53
25
Winter Words Op.52 : 4. The Little Old Table
1:21
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Winter Words Op.52 : 5. The Choirmaster's Burial
3:57
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Winter Words Op.52 : 6. Proud Songsters
1:07
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Winter Words Op.52 : At the Railway Station, Upway
3:06
29
Winter Words Op.52 : Before Life and After
3:03

Side 4

1
Canticle 1: My Beloved is Mine, op.40
7:53
2
Canticle 2: Abraham and Isaac, op.51
17:04
3
Canticle 3: Still Falls the Rain, op.55
11:42
4
Canticle 4: Journey of the Magi, op.86
12:16
5
Canticle 5: The Death of Saint Narcissus, op.89
7:49
6
The Plough Boy
1:50
7
The Salley Gardens
2:41
8
The foggy, foggy dew
2:40
9
There's none to soothe
1:48
10
O Waly, Waly
3:54
11
The Ash Grove
3:00
12
Greensleeves
2:17

Side 5

1
Two Songs by Thomas Hardy : 1. The Childrfen and Sir Nameless
2:51
10
Three rhymes by William Soutar : Dawlie's Devotion
0:48
11
Three rhymes by William Soutar : Tradition
0:56
12
Three rhymes by William Soutar : The Gully
0:56
13
Tit for Tat : 1. A Song Echantment
2:29
14
Tit for Tat : 3. Silver
1:53
15
Tit for Tat : 5. Tit for Tat
2:18
16
Two Ballads for voices and piano : 1. Mother Comfort
3:41
17
Two Ballads for voices and piano : 2. Underneath the Abject Willow
2:10
18
Folksong arrangements : Sweet Polly Oliver
1:55
19
Folksong arrangements : The Minstrel Boy
2:28

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Vocal Works 2013
6× CD4 августа 2013 135 tracks